LABORATORIES AND MUSEUMS. THE PHYSICAL LABORATORY. JOSHUA WALKER GORE, C.E., DIRECTOR and Professor of Physics. The Physical Laboratory occupies the eastern half of the first floor of the Alumni Building, consisting of a lecture room, an apparatus room, a main laboratory and a smaller laboratory for advanced work in electricity; and the eastern half of the basement of the same building, consisting of a work shop, a storage room, a battery room and a room designed for a dynamo and motor laboratory. The entire floor space is about five thousand square feet. The laboratory is provided with the apparatus needed for illustrating the several courses offered, and is supplied with gas, water and electricity. The laboratory is also quite well provided with apparatus for the experimental work required in the general course, Physics 1; with instruments of precision for electrical and magnetic measuring and testing; and with the equipment needed for X-ray and wireless telegraphy experimentation. The electric light and central heating plants form a valuable adjunct to the physical laboratory. THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY. CHARLES BASKERVILLE, PH.D., DIRECTOR and Smith Professor of General and Industrial Chemistry. FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, PH.D., Professor of Theoretical Chemistry. ALVIN SAWYER WHEELER, PH.D., Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry. JAMES EDWARD MILLS, PH.D., Instructor in General and Physical Chem ROYALL OSCAR EUGENE DAVIS, PH.B., Assistant in Analytical Chemistry, HUGH HAMMOND BENNETT, Assistant in the Laboratory. BRENT SKINNER DRANE, Assistant in Charge of the Store Room. The building formerly known as Person Hall is now used as the Chemical Laboratory. It has been greatly added to and forms a convenient and well-arranged system of laboratories for a limited number of workers. The rooms are eleven in number and contain about six thousand square feet of floor space. The pitch of the rooms is twenty feet, and they are lighted by numerous large windows, five feet by ten in size. Thus good ventilation and light are secured. There is a large lecture room with a seating capacity of one hundred and forty. The sides and rear of the rooms have glass cases for the display of a handsome line of specimens, scientific and technical. The room is lighted by electricity. In addition to its use as a lecture room, it is used as a place of meeting by the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Adjoining the lecture room is the private laboratory of the Director, and a smaller room for the storage of specimens and finer apparatus. The west wing of the laboratory is divided into laboratories for qualitative and quantitative analysis, furnishing desk-space for sixty-one and twentyeight students respectively. These laboratories are provided with hoods for carrying off noxious gases. There is a small room also, cut off from the other laboratories, in which dangerous or disagreeable experiments may be performed. The rear portion of the laboratory is almost a reproduction of the front in size and outline. It is divided into a balance room, containing nine modern balances and one assay balance, a library, a room with deskspace for five advanced students in quantitative analysis and research, an assay room provided with a set of gas furnaces, a laboratory for toxicological, physiological or other special work, and a storeroom. In the assay room is placed a large still, which provides an abundance of distilled water. The laboratories are supplied with gas and water. The expenditures for apparatus amounted to nineteen hundred dollars during the past session and will average fifteen hundred dollars annually. Recently apparatus for gas analysis and many lines of technical work have been purchased; also a new vacuum pump, electric furnace, Steinheil grating, spectroscope and other apparatus for refined and accurate work. THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AND MUSEUM. HENRY VAN PETERS WILSON, PH.D., DIRECTOR and Professor of Biology. CLARENCE ALBERT SHORE, S.B., Instructor in Biology. The Biological Laboratory occupies the upper floor of the New East Building, and includes a lecture room, a main laboratory, two smaller laboratories for advanced students, a private workroom and a storeroom. The entire floor space is something over four thousand square feet. The equipment is especially adapted to the needs of modern microscopical work, and includes compound and dissecting microscopes, microtomes, paraffin and hot air baths, incubator, camera lucidas, immersion lenses, All rooms in the laboratory are supplied with running water. In addition to the sinks, there are several large aquarium tables in which living animals may be kept for breeding purposes, study of their habits, or class work. etc. The museum collections are arranged in cases in the main laboratory. The marine fauna of the Atlantic coast is well represented. There are very serviceable collections of bird skins, bird eggs, insects and flowering plants. Students engaged in advanced work have access to microscopic preparations, illustrating the anatomy and development of sponges and corals, the histology of medusae, the development of teleosts and other objects of morphological interest. The departmental library includes many valuable books of reference, treatises and zoological journals. THE GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY AND MUSEUM. COLLIER COBB, A.M., DIRECTOR and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy. ROBERT GILLIAM LASSITER, Assistant in Geology. ROBERT ARTHUR LICHTENTHAELER, Assistant in Geology. The Geological Laboratory occupies the first floor of the New East Building. In addition to a lecture room with a seating capacity of about ninety students, there is a large laboratory supplied with working collections of minerals, rocks and fossils, and with photographs, maps and models illustrating geological structure. The laboratory is furnished with two petrographical microscopes, and with apparatus for the slicing and polishing of rocks. Microscopic slides have been made of most of the specimens from North Carolina; and the department has, also, sections of the typical European rocks. Sections of the rocks around Chapel Hill, and the igneous rocks of the Boston Basin, made by the late Hunter Lee Harris, of the class of 1889, were given to the geological department. A room for photographic work has recently been added. The University possesses a collection of more than two thousand specimens of typical rocks and minerals from various European localities, and of large specimens of building stones, coals and various products illustrating the economic geology of the State. These are arranged in an exhibition room of six hundred and fifty square feet of floor space. Here are kept also the sections taken with a diamond drill in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, in the region round King's Mountain, where the Summer School in Geology held its sessions, in the Dan River coal fields and in the Triassic Rocks at Durham, N. C. A complete set of the ores of the precious metals found along the line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad is included in the collection. Valuable additions have been made to the collections of fossils also, affording increased opportunity for laboratory work in historical geology and palæontology. The collection illustrating economic geology has been largely increased. The departmental library, which occupies a room adjoining the exhibition room, is supplied with State and United States Reports, the papers of working geologists, the best works upon Geology, and scientific periodicals. 9 THE UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATIONS. THE DIALECTIC AND PHILANTHROPIC LITERARY SOCIETIES. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies were organized in 1795, the year of the opening of the University. Their existence has been inseparably linked with that of the University, and they have shown remarkable power in developing character as well as in training the intellect. They offer facilities for practice in debate, oratory, declamation and essay writing; and their members become practically familiar with parliamentary law and usage. Each society owns a large, handsomely furnished hall, the walls of which are hung with oil portraits of illustrious members. Meetings are held by each society every Saturday night during the college year, admission being confined to members. Public contests in debate between the two societies are conducted twice a year. During Commencement week, each society holds its own annual festival, upon which occasion medals are awarded for excellence in debate, oratory, declamation and essay writing. On Tuesday night preceding Commencement four representatives elected from the two societies have a public competition in debate, and a prize is awarded to the successful competitors. By immemorial custom, students from the eastern half of the State usually join the Philanthropic Society, while those from the western half join the Dialectic Society. Although membership in the societies is entirely optional, yet it is earnestly recommended by the Faculty as furnishing unusual opportunities not only for literary culture, but also for the development of self-control and the power to persuade and control others. |